Quote:I imagine leading with "nothing" would be extremely difficult... But what do you mean by leading with your pelvic bone? Just, thrust your entire pelvis forward? That doesn't sound right to me...
Yeah I didn't understand how to lead with "nothing" either lol. Unless you walk straight as a board, everything perfectly aligned. Seems like it'd be a stiff walk. Hmm how to explain leading with pelvis.... you don't really thrust it forward because that would be unnatural. Okay here is my best go at explaining it:
You want to stand tall with good posture, back in line properly without sticking your butt out (I used to be so bad for that, did it for years making my spine into an S and didn't even know I was doing it until a physio doc told me) and your shoulders drawn backward and down, not back to the point where you are thrusting your chest out but back to the point where you'd imagine that they are directly below your ears, resting but alert. I think it is called squaring them?
And now when you step forward with your left leg, just imagine that you are leading your step with the left side of your pelvis, and then same with right, your right step is lead by the right pelvis bone. This will slightly exagerate the roll of the hips. This is MUCH easier to first get the hang of in heels, even if they are just little kitten heels. And then once you have it in heels you can see that you can also do it without heels. Also, if you are having difficulties understanding the motion/ not sure if it is the right motion, you may want to do some belly dancing moves just to loosen your hips/pelvis up
Specifically, the figure 8. You basically just draw a figure 8 with your hips (I'd maybe youtube it if its something you want to try, it's hard to give a written belly dance lesson lol) anywho, this figure 8 is a
very exagerated motion of what your hips should be doing as you walk while "leading" with your pelvis
For me, it really was an amazing help just to imagine that I am leading with my pelvis, it sort of just pulled me into the walk. It's kind of like doing a catwalk, like a victoria's secret angel, with a bit less of an exagerated hip roll (of course, you can exagerate the hip roll more or less to however you like, but if you just imagine the pelvis lead your walk will look and feel very natural and sexy).
But yea just give it a try! You'll see what I mean, unless my instructions are horrible..... hopefully not........
